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From: Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog1.demon.co.uk>
To: Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Irix NFS servers, again :-)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:12:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087495972.15215.2.camel@ceiriog1.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D1DAEA.8030103@xfs.org>

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:54, Steve Lord wrote:

> 
> Part of the fix for these issues with Irix NFS was version 2
> directories in XFS, this made directory offsets in XFS into
> real offsets rather than 64 bit hash values.
> 
> If your filesystem is old enough, it will have version 1
> directories - and the only conversion process is to do
> a dump/mkfs/restore.
> 
> xfs_growfs -n /mntpnt will report the directory version
> as naming=1 or naming=2 if I recall correctly.
> 
> Steve

Thanks, that explains it. The filesystem in question
indeed has naming=1. Now I just have to work out whether it is
worth the effort of conversion or whether I can live with a
kludged linux client (glibc or kernel).
Thanks to all who replied...


Peter


      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-17 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16 18:52 Peter Wainwright
2004-06-17  9:26 ` David Rees
2004-06-17 13:38   ` Nathan Straz
2004-06-17 17:44   ` Peter Wainwright
2004-06-17 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 16:55   ` Peter Wainwright
2004-06-17 17:54     ` Steve Lord
2004-06-17 18:12       ` Peter Wainwright [this message]

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